Friday, May 20, 2011

The Song Deserves Its Own Post: The Experience - Goodie Mobb

"Jewels in the head much better than the chain". That quote is a Styles P reference but this song makes me think of the quote.

Don't sleep on Goodie Mobb's "Soul Food" album, or this song...

Yeah, better believe that slickha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha yeahI thought you said you was the G-O-DSound like another nigger to me, ha ha, yeahI thought you said you was the G-O-Dsound like another nigger to me, shitWhat a nigger do, what a nigger doesAnd a nigger is what a nigger wasAnd a nigger done read history but yet his eyes didn't seeThe only reason you a nigger is because somebody else wants you to beWell a nigger uneducated, intergrated, singin' "We shall overcome"A nigger trying to be white is what a nigger seem like have becomeAnd when they call me a nigger to my face' Can't do nothin' but walk awayBut here it is niggers call other niggers niggers each and every dayDividing and conquering When they say the lighter shade of black is okayUp to the middle class and they passin' byThe project laughing at where we staySince a nigger had got grown, had a little bitty of nigger of my ownShould've known I couldn't show 'em no better what I was showin'Shit, I could've hit the club as fresh as I could beReally, it's all for another nigger to seeYou know how a nigger get when he see another nigger outfit Don't want nobody to have what he ain't gotSomebody get drunk, get mad, and get shotThat's why the property value ain't no good in a nigger neighborhoodA nigger could overstand if he only understoodI'm sick of lyin' I'm sick of glorifyin' dyin'I'm sick of not trying, shit I'm sick of being a niggerDestiny sent me to this dread and she said she felt ledTo offer me some wisdom from this lil book she readAnd it said that right then the black man's downfallWas not know that we were not ever niggers at all, hmmAnd she looked deeply into my eyes and said brother don't you knowYou complain about being black, When they mad cuz they can't be black no mo'So many black men out here trying to be niggersKeeping it real to the point that they dying to be niggersWhen in actuality the fact is you ain't a nigger because you blackYou a nigger cause of how you actBut, you don't want me to tell you the truth, so I'ma lie to youMake it sound fly to you huh, huh,You don't wanna hear the truth, so I'ma lie to you Make it sound fly to you, shitThe nigger experienceThe nigger experienceHas been stated, it was createdThe nigger experience

It's crazy how I'm gonna go listen to some Rick Ross IMMEDIATELY after this though, smh.